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I am trying to better understand the function of Lightroom Catalog back-ups and how many I can delete in order to free up storage space. These files are labeled "Lightroom Catalog-2-v12.zip" (the more recent) or "Lightroomn Catalog-2.Ircat.zip" (the older ones).
Is there any reason to keep more than the most recent catalog back-up? If so, how many should I keep and/or how long should I keep them?
Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks,
Scott
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"How many to delete..." is your decision, but- Some people have a plan to keep -1 Daily for 1 week, 4 weekly for 1 month, 12 monthly for a year. But you need backups in the event of a catalog failure, or a drive failure when backups MUST be on a separate physical hard-drive to the catalog.
One "reason to keep more than the most recent catalog back-up" is that you might have unknowingly done something to affect many (all) files (eg. Deleting a common keyword) and this can easily happen with the
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"How many to delete..." is your decision, but- Some people have a plan to keep -1 Daily for 1 week, 4 weekly for 1 month, 12 monthly for a year. But you need backups in the event of a catalog failure, or a drive failure when backups MUST be on a separate physical hard-drive to the catalog.
One "reason to keep more than the most recent catalog back-up" is that you might have unknowingly done something to affect many (all) files (eg. Deleting a common keyword) and this can easily happen with the [Auto-Sync] switch 'on', or many selected files when you make a change. You may have to go back months to find and repair a mistake.
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